Hi Everyone, I suspect that everyone has already heard that unfortunately, the funding for Raptor Engineering's Talos workstation project was not successful, so I wanted to make a final post to wrap this up. Between 12 people, we had raised enough to buy the full system and a processor, and I'd like to once again thank everyone who committed money to helping the project.
If you haven't read Timothy's final post, I thought it was fairly relevant, although I suspect that many of the people in the coreboot community already know many of his points. https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-secure-workstatio...
Also in the final update, Timothy mentions some of the future projects that Raptor is planning to work on, including developing an open BMC board for the Asus KGPE-D16 board. If anyone would like to help fund that, or transfer any of the money that they were going to use to support the Talos project, I'll match contributions with the money I was going to put towards Talos. He also mentions that he's going to keep working on open-power solutions, so I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what happens with that.
Martin
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Martin Roth gaumless@gmail.com wrote:
Update: I've added coreboot's commitment to purchase a board and a processor to the crowdsupply site.
Board: 3700 Processor: 1240
We've got $6,200 committed from 11 contributors. If things work out, the rest of the money will be used for the additional components needed, and an upgraded processor.
Thanks to everyone who committed to supporting the purchase.
Martin
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Martin Roth gaumless@gmail.com wrote:
Update: We've got $4400 promised, with 7 contributors.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Martin Roth gaumless@gmail.com wrote:
Update: After the weekend, we're up to $3700 with 5 contributors.
Martin
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 1:01 PM, David Hendricks david.hendricks@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Martin Roth gaumless@gmail.com wrote:
Is getting a Talos workstation as a build server something that people are interested in contributing money for?
Yes, this needs to happen.
So far, we've got $2500 pledged from two contributors out of the $7500 needed to get a server.
I'll match up to $2000 worth of small/moderate pledges ($250 or less). So if 10 people pledge $200 I'll chip in $2000 to bring us to $6500.